I wonder about the extent to which GPT-3 can be considered a remix of the web that makes it seem magical again, revealing aspects of it that we don’t normally see?
Such as a darknet marketplace where animals can trade valuable resources for electricity? :D
But yeah, I agree, if there are places debating a topic that resembles the prompt, GPT-3 could be good at including them in the debate. So maybe if the result is too good, it makes sense to check parts of it by a search engine.
Maybe it would even make sense to use GPT-3 purposefully to search for something on the internet. Like, if you have a vague suspicion that something could exist, but you don’t know the right keywords to type into the search engine, maybe you could just describe the thing, and hope that GPT-3 finds the right words and tells you something that you can search later. Not sure if this actually would work.
There is (going to be) a search engine involving GPT-3, according to twitter, though it’s GPT-3 helping you find things instead of someone finding GPT-3′s sources.
I’m suggesting something a little more complex than copying. GPT-3 can give you a random remix of several different clichés found on the Internet, and the patchwork isn’t necessarily at the surface level where it would come up in a search. Readers can be inspired by evocative nonsense. A new form of randomness can be part of a creative process. It’s a generate-and-test algorithm where the user does some of the testing. Or, alternately, an exploration of Internet-adjacent story-space.
It’s an unreliable narrator and I suspect it will be an unreliable search engine, but yeah, that too.
Such as a darknet marketplace where animals can trade valuable resources for electricity? :D
But yeah, I agree, if there are places debating a topic that resembles the prompt, GPT-3 could be good at including them in the debate. So maybe if the result is too good, it makes sense to check parts of it by a search engine.
Maybe it would even make sense to use GPT-3 purposefully to search for something on the internet. Like, if you have a vague suspicion that something could exist, but you don’t know the right keywords to type into the search engine, maybe you could just describe the thing, and hope that GPT-3 finds the right words and tells you something that you can search later. Not sure if this actually would work.
There is (going to be) a search engine involving GPT-3, according to twitter, though it’s GPT-3 helping you find things instead of someone finding GPT-3′s sources.
I’m suggesting something a little more complex than copying. GPT-3 can give you a random remix of several different clichés found on the Internet, and the patchwork isn’t necessarily at the surface level where it would come up in a search. Readers can be inspired by evocative nonsense. A new form of randomness can be part of a creative process. It’s a generate-and-test algorithm where the user does some of the testing. Or, alternately, an exploration of Internet-adjacent story-space.
It’s an unreliable narrator and I suspect it will be an unreliable search engine, but yeah, that too.